Azure Automation is a cloud-based service that helps you to automate and manage various processes, tasks, and workflows in your environment. It allows you to create, schedule, and run runbooks that perform various automation tasks. To manage and access Azure resources from within these runbooks, you need to create a Run As account. A Run…
There can be requirement of uploading your own self signed certificate or you organizational approved Certificate to Azure Run As account. This article will assist you in doing that, some admins do it, so they do not have to renew every year First let us create a certificate using New-SelfSignedCertificate powershell command. New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject ‘CN=AutomationRunAsCert’…
Sharing my experience with Azure Automation job being suspended with an exception message: The runbook job was attempted 3 times, but it failed each time I was working on one of the AZURE automation that involved SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline PowerShell module. Every time when we check it, it was in Suspended State as Shown below: We…
I was assigned a task to auto shut off the AzureVMs during weekend and start again on Monday. During my research, I have found numerous articles as I do not want to reinvent the wheel if some one has already written a script or solution for it. Numerous articles were pointing to Enable Start/Stop VMs during…
Currently I am engaged in doing automation utilizing Azure Automation Accounts so want to share important HIGH level first steps that you have to preform so that you can connect the PowerShell ISE terminal directly to Azure Automation. You might already be having Azure Automation account but if not then let’s create one. Go to…
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